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Bug 170352 - Improve typeahead matching algorithm
Improve typeahead matching algorithm
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Views: All
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 301689 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-03-14 17:32 UTC by milky_cow_101
Modified: 2012-08-14 23:14 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Attachments
Updated patch (11.22 KB, patch)
2008-11-10 14:47 UTC, Nelson Benitez
none Details | Review
screencast (525.75 KB, image/gif)
2008-11-12 11:39 UTC, Nelson Benitez
  Details

Description milky_cow_101 2005-03-14 17:32:30 UTC
Instead of just left to right, make it more like Opera's or Mozilla's.

PS: I'm not talking about the the search feature, I'm talkig about the new find-as-you-type 
feature that is similar ot Mozilla's.
Comment 1 Sebastien Bacher 2005-03-20 00:09:35 UTC
what do you mean ? you want to display a bar with some buttons for the search
direction ? are you using the list or icon view ?
Comment 2 milky_cow_101 2005-03-21 02:22:52 UTC
You know the find as you type thing, when you just start typing whatever in nautilus and then it 
finds it, it only looks through the 1st words instead of throughout..for example I typed "foo" then 
"loofoo" wouldn't be found, but it should be.
Comment 3 Sebastien Bacher 2005-07-31 14:22:06 UTC
reopening
Comment 4 Christian Neumair 2006-02-25 22:16:39 UTC
Recently there was a fruitful discussion on this issue on nautilus-list:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2006-February/msg00020.html

Milestoning to 2.16.
Comment 5 Christian Neumair 2006-02-25 22:22:16 UTC
*** Bug 301689 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Nelson Benitez 2008-11-10 14:47:53 UTC
Created attachment 122327 [details] [review]
Updated patch

This is the patch that I posted here[1], but updated to nautilus trunk.

[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2006-February/msg00020.html
Comment 7 Cosimo Cecchi 2008-11-10 20:33:05 UTC
Unsetting 2.16 target and changing fields, let's see if we can get this in for 2.26 :)
Comment 8 Nelson Benitez 2008-11-12 11:39:30 UTC
Created attachment 122484 [details]
screencast
Comment 9 Nelson Benitez 2008-11-12 11:50:06 UTC
I've made a screencast for people that can't test the patch. It uses two files "aimages.txt" and "images.zip" to show how icon view first matches at start of the word, and if that fails it matchs at any part of the word. 

In list view it only matches at any part of the word, because of limitation of the builtin gtktreeview typeahead, but I'll try to implement the same behaviour and make a patch for GtkTreeView.
Comment 10 William Jon McCann 2012-08-14 23:14:26 UTC
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
However, you are using a version that is too old and not supported anymore. GNOME developers are no longer working on that version, so unfortunately there will not be any bug fixes for the version that you use.

By upgrading to a newer version of GNOME you could receive bug fixes and new functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a newer version of GNOME.
Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with a newer version of GNOME.